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HDF5 Tutorial - Advanced Topics

Several of the topics below do not include C examples for use with HDF5 1.8. Please note that the 1.6 examples can be built with the 1.8 library by using the -D H5_USE_16_API option (unless your HDF5 1.8 library was configured with the --disable-deprecated-symbols option).

Property Lists (HDF5 1.6) File Creation (user block, offset sizes, symbol table and B-tree parameter sizes, ...) File Access (cache, meta block size, sieve buffer, file close degree, ...) Dataset Creation (contiguous, chunked, compression, external, extendible, checksum, fill value, ...) Data Access/Transfer (caching hints, parallel, ...)
Hyperslab Selection
Point Selection
Compound Datatypes (HDF5 1.6)
References to Objects (HDF5 1.6)
References to Regions (HDF5 1.6)
Mounting Files
Group Iteration (HDF5 1.6)
File Drivers

- - Last modified:September 23rd 2009